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Summary: Your Self Esteem Needs This Book
Review: This book is invaluable for people with low self-esteem. Dr. Sorensen gives you exercises to help overcome the negative messages that keep playing in your head. Anyone who is struggling with this crippling emotional problem needs to read this. It is easy to read and often hits you between the eyes with awareness. Great book!
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Summary: I was lost now I am found
Review: This book is to me is the greatest book written. I have found why I feel the way I feel. Why I act the way I act. This book has many sections of exercises to do. It may take you several months to do all the exercises but do them and you will be amazed. I found that some of the reading takes time because what you have to remember may make you sad. I have cried some through this book and had to put it down. But a day later I am right back in it to find out what's next. The more I read the more I learned. Its amazing how my thoughts have changed. Even my day to day activity is different. Reading this book is as if the writer was me. Now I know that my feeling are not stupid. There are millions of people that feel as I do and there is help! Read the book and make your low self esteem a person of the past. Buy it today and start loving yourself. It will be the most wonderful gift you have ever given yourself.
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Summary: Different from the rest
Review: This book really helped me to change my life. When I picked it up a year ago, I was surprised to see example after example of myself and my behaviors laid out. The author's examples of a person's childhood and other life experiences that help add up to low self esteem and bad choices later in life were also dead-on. It gave me a sense of hope that I could behave differently, and examples of how to begin to behave differently. Also, if you're in the greater Portland area, you might look into seeing her as a therapist - I did and it was a great experience.
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Summary: More Substance, Please!
Review: This book spends 99% of its content focusing on the causes of low self esteem, and on the dysfunctional behaviors it begets. Most of the exercises at the end of each chapter have the goal in mind of showing people what they are doing wrong & why they're doing it.What this book lacks, is information about how to replace low self esteem with high self esteem. As someone who's been in therapy for years, I know the causes of my LSE and I know enough not to engage in the behaviors I used to. However, I still have LSE. This book, while promising in its outlook, falls short in this goal. Sorenson seems to fall into the "breakthough" fallacy. That, in therapy, someone has a "breakthough" -- say, understanding why some event in the past makes them feel the way they do -- and believes that this alone is sufficient to replace LSE with high self esteem. But "breakthroughs" have this effect only in Hollywood & in self-help books, not in real life. The short "recovery" paragraph at the end of each chapter is way, way too brief. They all basically say the same thing: "It will take a long time & you may not see any progress." Well, duh. What I'd rather see is a book which expounds on that too-brief material. Unfortunately I doubt that such a thing exists.
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Summary: Simply amazing!
Review: This book will transform your life into one that is a pleasure and a joy to live. You will not be the same after you read it.
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Summary: Great motivating book!
Review: This books helps to start you on the right path to positive thinking with simple examples and suggestions to get you on your way. It's not a theories and philosophy book. It's a down to earth methods book.
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Summary: Breaking Free At Last
Review: This is a "must read" for anyone stuggling with feelings of low self-worth and of not fitting in. Dr. Sorensen's explanation of the origins and development of LSE through a case illustration named "Jane" will ignite and enlighten your path for "freedom". I've been in therapy for many years and now also participate in group therapy. Her insights helped me through a potentially devastating "tailspin" after my last group meeting. Her suggestions can be implemented immediately. Dr. Sorensen, please hurry with your next book!
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Summary: A great help
Review: This is a great book for anyone who thinks they may have LSE. It is easy to read, explain problems thoroughly, gives you excercises to increase self esteme and most importantly makes you realize that you can overcome the problem.
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Summary: AMAZING INSIGHTS ABOUT LOW SELF-ESTEEM
Review: This is a truly amazing book and the best I've ever read on the subject of low self-esteem. Dr. Sorensen explains the inner experience of low self-esteem in a way I've never before heard and for the first time has helped me fully understand this pervasive problem called low self-esteem. Dr. Sorensen truly has a way with words and her compassionate explanations clearly spell out the process of low self-esteem and the way in which LSE ultimately leads people to sabotage their lives without being aware they are doing so. She has great exercises at the end of chapters and I found her sections that compare those with healthy self-esteem to those with low self-esteem to be especially interesting and helpful. THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ, whether for themselves or to better understand family and friends that suffer from LSE. IT'S HARD TO PUT THIS BOOK DOWN UNTIL YOU'VE READ IT COVER TO COVER.
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Summary: Helpfull, But With Serious Flaws
Review: This set was helpfull, in that it allowed me to see the root causes of my low self-esteem. However, very little information about how to recover from low self-esteem is given. The author relies entirely on a recommendation that you get expensive therapy (at least one year) - an option that the vast majority of people cannot afford. There is virtually nothing suggested about how you can help yourself, except for a proposal that you get a second job or borrow money from your family so that you can afford therapy. The long-winded descriptions and stories do, however, accurately illustrate what it is like to experience low self-esteem. Some descriptions apply only to the most severely affected sufferers. The most beneficial segments correctly link low self-esteem to painfull experiences in childhood, and these illustrations are helpful in relieving guilt and allowing you to see that what has happened to you is not really your fault. At one point I was brought to tears as I recalled the painfull experiences of my childhood and realized that not only was I not responsible for the way I was treated, but also that recovery is entirely possible. It was helpfull to realize that I was not the only one with this problem - many people suffer from low self-esteem. The characterizations are so accurate that it becomes easy to recognize other people you may know who also suffer from low self-esteem; and helps you better understand their feelings and behavior.
The flaws are glaring and unpleasant. The set starts out with a scathing rebuke of the modern practice of psychology/psychiatry, with all practicioners who do not agree with the author being portrayed as the bad guys. About halfway through the tapes, the listener is assaulted with a lengthy diatribe condemning the mis-treatment of all women by all men since the beginning of time. All women are portrayed as victims, and all men are portrayed as villians - the concept that a woman can be equally capable of hurting a man seems lost on this author. Also disappointing was the author's absolute condemnation of any women who consents to be involved in a traditional religion - Christian women should not listen to these tapes! A good portion of the end of the set is devoted to telling you which therapists NOT to see - which is virtually any therapist whom does not completely agree with the author in every detail. She has no tolerance whatsoever for any other opinion but her own, and the language is always written in a doomsday fashion - the listener is told repeatedly that recovery is utterly impossible unless her recommendations are followed precisely.
Conclusion: Overall it is beneficial to purchase and own these tapes, but take the authors man-hating, condemnation of religion, and doomsday rhetoric with a BIG grain of salt.
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